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50 Hard Quiz Questions

These questions are some of our harder ones, so will really test your general knowledge skills.


Questions

  1. Warrington IKEA was the first IKEA store to open in the UK. In which decade did it open?
  2. Which female Germanic name, meaning "bright one", was given to the howitzer first used by the German army to bombard French and Belgian forts during World War I?
  3. Which island is remembered for an iconic photograph of six United States Marines raising the U.S. flag on Mount Suribachi?
  4. What name is given to the principal office that houses a diplomatic mission or an embassy?
  5. What’s the maximum number of horses that can run in the grand national?




  6. What is the name given to the four virtues of prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance?
  7. Which monarch was on the throne when William Shakespeare died?
  8. Which boarding school in Moray, Scotland, did Prince Charles attend?
  9. It has been cited as the first novel written in English, which Christian allegory written in 1678 is regarded as one of the most significant works of theological fiction in English literature?
  10. Marsala is a fortified wine produced in the region surrounding the city of Marsala on which island?
  11. Which diary is a comic novel written by the brothers George and Weedon Grossmith?
  12. Belmopan is the capital of which country?
  13. "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you" is a quote from which novel set during World War II?
  14. The hipposandal is a device that was a predecessor to what?
  15. Royal Air Force Luqa was a Royal Air Force station which was developed into which country’s international airport?
  16. How many times has the summer Olympic games been cancelled due to war?
  17. The Ussher chronology is a 17th-century chronology of the history of the world which deduced that the first day of creation was in October of which year?
  18. Which family ruled Florence throughout much of the Italian Renaissance?
  19. Which is the only official city in the Irish province of Connacht?
  20. Who as mayor of Aldeburgh in 1908 became the first female mayor in Britain?
  21. Known as 'Golf's Greatest Test', which of The Open Championship's venues is the most northern?
  22. Which city is linked to the North Sea by the River Scheldt?
  23. What is the common name for your encephalon?
  24. Which British novelist served as Governor General of Canada?
  25. Which English television scriptwriter created the character Alf Garnett?

Answers

  1. 1980s (1987)
  2. Bertha (Big Bertha)
  3. Iwo Jima
  4. Chancery
  5. 40
  6. The cardinal virtues
  7. James I
  8. Gordonstoun School
  9. The Pilgrim’s Progress (John Bunyan)
  10. Sicily
  11. The Diary of a Nobody
  12. Belize
  13. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
  14. Horseshoe
  15. Malta
  16. Three (1916, 1940, 1944)
  17. 4004 BC
  18. Medici Family
  19. Galway
  20. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (also famous for being the first woman to qualify in Britain as a doctor and surgeon)
  21. Carnoustie
  22. Antwerp
  23. The brain
  24. John Buchan
  25. Johnny Speight






Questions

  1. The inaugural commercial flights of Concorde in 1976 left London and Paris. Which two countries were their destinations?
  2. On what subject did the actor Omar Sharif write a column for The Observer newspaper?
  3. All Olympic rowing races are raced over a course of how many metres?
  4. In poetry, the author of "Anthem for Doomed Youth" was killed one week before the end of the First World War – who was he?
  5. Walter Burley Griffin was an American architect famous for designing the layout of which city?
  6. What is a quirt?
  7. Who has been Denmark's reigning monarch since 1972?
  8. Which cathedral lies on the south bank of the River Thames close to London Bridge?
  9. The Statute of Anne, enacted in 1710 in England and Scotland provided the first legislation to protect what?
  10. Which Irish sports’ stadium is the third-largest stadium in Europe?
  11. What is a ‘lapsus linguae’?
  12. Roland Berrill, an Australian barrister, and Lancelot Ware, a British lawyer and scientist, founded which organisation at Lincoln College, in Oxford, in 1946?
  13. Whose first book was adapted as the popular Broadway musical South Pacific?
  14. Naked Lunch is a 1959 novel by which American writer?
  15. What term used by British soldiers for Beja warriors in the the Mahdist War is also the title of a poem by Rudyard Kipling?
  16. Which mountaineering or climbing term is derived from the German meaning to descend by rope?
  17. Which English playwright and two-time Oscar-winning screenwriter, is known for writing the screenplays for Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, and A Man for All Seasons?
  18. Which country has land borders with both Egypt and Algeria?
  19. Prior to Edward VIII's abducation, who was the last crowned king of England whose reign lasted less than one year?
  20. Preston in Lancashire stands on which river?
  21. What is a prosthesis?
  22. Which Spanish word meaning council or board is often used for a military government?
  23. According to Egyptologist Margaret Murray what consists of 12 witches and a devil as leader?
  24. Which actress first came to prominence in her role as Twinkle in the BBC One sitcom Dinnerladies?
  25. In April, 2010, Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner stepped forward to donate the final million dollars to save what?

Answers

  1. Bahrain and Brazil
  2. Bridge
  3. 2,000 metres
  4. Wilfred Owen
  5. Canberra, Australia
  6. A small riding whip or crop
  7. Queen Margrethe II
  8. Southwark cathedral
  9. Copyrights
  10. Croke Park
  11. A slip of the tongue
  12. Mensa
  13. James Michener
  14. William S. Burroughs
  15. Fuzzy-Wuzzy
  16. Abseil
  17. Robert Bolt
  18. Libya
  19. King Harold (1066)
  20. River Ribble
  21. An artificial body part, such as a limb
  22. Junta
  23. A coven
  24. Maxine Peake
  25. The Hollywood sign